Experimental painting techniques for capturing personal responses to nature. Abstract naturalism, color & composition, form & texture, painting out, using line, collage and monoprint, new directions.

Presents art lessons for art projects of varying styles including drawing, printmaking, and mixed media.

The perfect book for budding artists, How to Draw Almost Every Day challenges and inspires you to draw one simple illustration each day of the year. Organised as a calendar, illustrations are presented as daily exercises. Each image is broken down with step-by-step diagrams, making the process easy to understand. You'll learn to draw items from everyday life, like food and clothing, as well as seasonal images including snowmen and pumpkins. We have...

This inspiring sketchbook is part of the new 20 Ways series from Quarry Books, designed to offer artists, designers, and doodlers a fun and sophisticated collection of illustration fun. Each spread features 20 inspiring illustrated examples of 45 themes -– black dresses, summery hats, stylish shoes, faux fur coats, and much, much more -– over 900 drawings, with blank space for you to draw your take on 20 Ways to Draw a Dress. This is not a step-by-step...

Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing fifty different breeds of dogs.

A comprehensive guide to creating and developing comic book and graphic novel art, from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), one of the world's leaders in sequential arts instruction. John Lowe, Dean of the School of Communication Arts at SCAD, presents an in-depth primer on the tools and techniques used by top sequential artists to crate comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art forms. Based on SCAD's world-famous sequential...

Come enter the world of manga fantasy. It's the place where swords and sorcery meet faeries, ogres, gothic beasts, futuristic knights, warrior women, alien races, science fiction, and more. An important part of the manga universe, fantasy is much more than just a style; it is an enchanted world with mystical allure. And who better to show you how to draw it than well-known cartooning and animation author Christopher Hart. With complete step-by-step...

Artists, designers, printers, and crafters alike would agree that the selection and use of color is of great importance to their work. And yet, a great deal of misunderstanding surrounds color mixing. Michael Wilcox offers a total reassessment for the principles underlying color and color usage. This revised edition of the original Blue & Yellow Don't Make Green--the first major breakaway from the traditional concepts of the three primary colors:...

This unique book is worth a second set of hands. It offers solo builders and do-it-yourselfers proven tips, techniques, and shortcuts for careful, precise, and safe construction. There are many times when a helper would make a job easier, and in some cases doable at all, but with John Carroll's clever, expert tips, there's no need to wait for help. This book, the only one of its kind, offers ways to get by with not only one pair of hands but to work...

In Part I, you'll discover the many different styles you can choose to draw in and how to develop your own personal style. In Part II, you'll discover a unique way of seeing that allows you to draw any shape you observe. You'll learn the basics (from buying art suppliees to planning your compositions) and all the good stuff -- proportion, scale, perspective, contrast, shading, and special effects. Lastly, Mona provides essential information on drawing...